NSA "Accidently" tracks computer users....

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - NSA "Accidently" tracks computer users....

Posted: 12/28/2005 9:17:25 PM EDT

FOX just reported it aparently the NSA "accidently" put tracking cookies in there website, visitors to there website then had there activities online dutifly reported back to the NSA, they have reportedly removed the cookies....

Posted: 12/28/2005 9:24:57 PM EDT

[#1]

ISNT THAT something most websites do?

Posted: 12/28/2005 9:25:44 PM EDT

[#2]

How would a cookie record my activity? Perhaps I do not understand exactly what a cookie is but last time I checked it simply stores data onto my computer to be called on at a later time.

Posted: 12/28/2005 11:11:03 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
FOX just reported it aparently the NSA "accidently" put tracking cookies in there website, visitors to there website then had there activities online dutifly reported back to the NSA, they have reportedly removed the cookies....

did this cause an explosion in detroit last night?

Seriously, this is a non story. Cookies can only be 'viewed' by the originating domain, so basically the NSA would be able to tell if a web browser was going to the NSA web site more than once.

whoopee.

Posted: 12/28/2005 11:12:50 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Quoted:
FOX just reported it aparently the NSA "accidently" put tracking cookies in there website, visitors to there website then had there activities online dutifly reported back to the NSA, they have reportedly removed the cookies....

did this cause an explosion in detroit last night?

At my aunts house. For real.

Posted: 12/29/2005 7:53:00 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
FOX just reported it aparently the NSA "accidently" put tracking cookies in there website, visitors to there website then had there activities online dutifly reported back to the NSA, they have reportedly removed the cookies....

Cookies are used by hundreds of web sites.
The NSA didn't accidentally put anything anywhere.
Cookies don't 'report activities'.
Their website does still use cookies.

So basically, that entire statement was false. I can't see any such link on the fox web page. Can you provide it?

Posted: 12/29/2005 7:55:13 AM EDT

[#6]

AR15's hive mind is bigger than NSA's hive mind.

Posted: 12/29/2005 8:07:30 AM EDT

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Posted: 12/29/2005 8:10:45 AM EDT

[#8]

I heard this on the radio this morning (wall street journal), but in the same breath the comentator stated "yeah I do all my NSA web surfing inbetween MSNBC and AOL...."...

Posted: 12/29/2005 8:12:03 AM EDT

[#9]

The story assumes that by "cookie" the NSA actually meant cookie and not "spyware". Change the word cookie to spyware and that story makes much more sense. Either the NSA or the author of the article used the wrong word either accidently or by choice.

Posted: 12/29/2005 8:15:17 AM EDT

[#10]

Still looking for a scandal to hang Bush

Posted: 12/29/2005 1:37:35 PM EDT

[#11]

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The story assumes that by "cookie" the NSA actually meant cookie and not "spyware". Change the word cookie to spyware and that story makes much more sense. Either the NSA or the author of the article used the wrong word either accidently or by choice.

Not likely. The whole story is silly BS.

It makes no sense at all for the NSA to put spyware on computers that visit their web site… if they want people to visit the web site at all. Something that if true would be discovered inside a week.

This story is BS by some one looking for something and to stupid to know any difference one way or the other.

Posted: 12/29/2005 1:44:40 PM EDT

[#12]

Merry Christmas to Brad.gov at the NSA! You done good, kid...

(Would it kill you to call your mother sometime?)

Posted: 12/29/2005 1:47:43 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
AR15's hive mind is bigger than NSA's hive mind.

Posted: 12/29/2005 1:47:43 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Quoted:
The story assumes that by "cookie" the NSA actually meant cookie and not "spyware". Change the word cookie to spyware and that story makes much more sense. Either the NSA or the author of the article used the wrong word either accidently or by choice.

Not likely. The whole story is silly BS.

It makes no sense at all for the NSA to put spyware on computers that visit their web site… if they want people to visit the web site at all. Something that if true would be discovered inside a week.

This story is BS by some one looking for something and to stupid to know any difference one way or the other.

Yes, this story is really stupid. "Cookies" are demonized just like black rifles are.

Want to see this site's cookie? Put this in your address bar and hit enter (for most browsers anyway):

javascript:alert(document.cookie)

Most likely the NSA put a new server on their site that was configured by default to use session cookies. Oops, they didn't change it. But this simple explanation won't work for those intent on making the NSA look like another gestapo wing of GWB's imperialist goverment.

Posted: 12/29/2005 1:55:48 PM EDT

[#15]

The NSA is a spy agency, so they better track visits to their website!

If you call the NSA, you don't think they'll caller ID'ed the number or track the cel phone location? C'mon, they're SPIES people!

Posted: 12/29/2005 2:01:52 PM EDT

[#16]

the NSA does NOTHING by "accident"

Posted: 12/29/2005 2:10:39 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted: the NSA does NOTHING by "accident"

Hey, I just visited the NSA website and I've got so many cookies from porn sites that can't figure out which one came from the Agency.

Posted: 12/29/2005 2:12:14 PM EDT

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Quoted:
the NSA does NOTHING by "accident"

RAF Menwith Hill

Biggest eavesdropping station in the world, NSA watching the world from outside the US Constitution (It's officially a British Base).

Posted: 12/29/2005 2:14:41 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
The story assumes that by "cookie" the NSA actually meant cookie and not "spyware". Change the word cookie to spyware and that story makes much more sense. Either the NSA or the author of the article used the wrong word either accidently or by choice.

My money is on the author. NSA makes no mistakes. MUHHAHAHA!

Damn. I posted this before I read the previous 4 or 5.

Posted: 12/29/2005 2:23:08 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted: RAF Menwith Hill Biggest eavesdropping station in the world, NSA watching the world from outside the US Constitution (It's officially is a British Base).

Don't scare the children vito113! That's just a relay station for Vodafone's digital cell phone network.

Posted: 12/29/2005 3:10:31 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Quoted: RAF Menwith Hill Biggest eavesdropping station in the world, NSA watching the world from outside the US Constitution (It's officially is a British Base).

Don't scare the children vito113! That's just a relay station for Vodafone's digital cell phone network.

Bwahahaha! (offshore filtering station) Bwahahaha!